Chapter 1 Where is Margaret Kerr?
‘When did your wife go out?’ asked Jenny Logan.
She looked at the man across the table from her. He was tall with dark brown hair.
‘Yesterday,’ he replied. ‘At lunchtime, I think. I wasn’t at home at the time. I went out just after twelve and got back about two.’
‘And she didn’t come home last night?’ said Logan.
‘That’s right,’ said the man.
‘Is she often out all night?’ asked Logan.
‘No,’ said the man. ‘Never.’
Jenny Logan sat back in her chair and looked at the man. It was a cold Monday afternoon in April and it was her first day in her new job. She was an inspector in the Edinburgh police – a new job in a new city. Sergeant Grant sat on her right. He had a pen and some paper. Logan looked at Grant.
‘Your name, sir?’ Grant asked the man.
‘Robert Kerr.’
‘Your wife’s name?’
‘Margaret.’
‘And where do you live?’ asked Grant.
‘On Royal Terrace,’ replied the man. Royal
Terrace was a pretty street that looked down across
the Royal Terrace Gardens to the police station on
London Road. Kerr told Grant the number of the building and the flat, and Grant wrote it on the paper.
‘And your wife left your flat about lunchtime yesterday afternoon and she still isn’t home?’ Grant made it a question.
‘That’s right,’ said Kerr.
Grant wrote on the paper.
‘What clothes did she have on?’ asked Logan.
Kerr thought for a minute. His eyes looked up over Logan’s head.
‘A white pullover and a black skirt,’ he said. ‘And a dark red coat. She had a brooch on the front of the coat.’
‘What kind of brooch?’ asked Logan.
第1 章　瑪格麗特?克爾去哪兒了？
“你妻子什么時候出去的？”珍妮?洛根問。她看著桌子對面的那個男人，他個頭很高，頭發(fā)深棕色。
“昨天，”他答道�！拔蚁胧俏顼埖臅r候吧，當時我沒在家。我剛過十二點就出去了，兩點左右回來的�！�
“那她昨晚沒回家嗎？”洛根說道。
“對，”男人說。
“她經常徹夜不歸嗎？”洛根問。
“不，”男人說。“從來都不。”
珍妮?洛根身子向后靠坐在椅子上看著那個男人。這是四月里一個寒冷的周一下午，也是她新工作的第一天。她是愛丁堡警察局的一名督察——新城市、新工作。格蘭特警長坐在她的右邊，拿著一支筆和幾頁紙。
洛根看了看格蘭特。
“你叫什么名字，先生？”格蘭特問那個人。
“羅伯特?克爾�！�
“你妻子叫什么？”
“瑪格麗特。”
“你住在哪兒？”格蘭特問。
“皇家露臺大街，”男人答道�；始衣杜_大街很漂亮，從那里可以越過皇家露臺公園俯瞰倫敦路上的警察局�？藸柛嬖V了格蘭特他住的樓棟和公寓號碼，格蘭特記在了紙上。
“你妻子大概在昨天下午午飯時離開家，現在還沒回來？”格蘭特把這當成問話，又問了一遍。
“對，”克爾說。
格蘭特寫在了紙上。
“她穿著什么衣服？”洛根問。
克爾想了一會兒。他眼睛向上看了看，目光越過了洛根的頭部。
“一件白色套衫，一條黑色短裙，”他說。“還有件深紅色的大衣，大衣前面別著一枚胸針�！�
“哪種胸針？”洛根問。